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Ru-Jun is now in her last year of pre school before Kindergarten. So as a policy they have kids rest instead of nap, as I described. She has not been making up the sleep as the week has proceeded and has been accumulating a sleep debt. She gets pretty silly and floppy by the end of the day, especially today. She’s trying to get herself to sleep (or at least sleepy) by watching Empire Strikes Back on the iPad alone in her darkened room. We’ll see if it works.

[supposed to have posted at about 10PM Thursday night 30-Aug but WordPress is currently not working correctly]

Ru-Jun had a bad evening last night (as described) and a not very good morning, obedience wise. Grandma and Grandpa arrived here this evening for a week and a half. She has been good. She is no longer napping at day care. In their final year they are “resters” on the couch for a little while instead of “nappers” in the nap room for a longer while. This is her first week of this. She is accumulating a sleep debt I think, but not yet to the point of collapsing at a time earlier than normal sleep time. I have to say that aside from last night, her tired behavior is improved over what it was a year or so ago on days in which she did not nap.

All the progress from the Spring was lost. Tonight there is a full tantrum going on because we can’t revert to earlier when she wasn’t sleeping in her room at all. I am insisting on initiating sleep, which I am having to help with now (again), in her bed. No idea when the current situation will improve.

After many download attempts, we finally got the Nick Jr Draw and Play app onto the iPad and Ru-Jun is having fun with it. It is a very fancy drawing app with all the Nick Jr characters and many cool sounds and animations. She has wanted it for a while.